Planning a Successful School & Community Garden Program Summer 2026

Welcome to our course! Please introduce yourself...

Each week we will have the opportunity to engage with each other through our online discussion forums. This week, please introduce yourself to the instructor and to the other students in the class. Tell us a little about yourself...your ...

In our forum this week, please share any effective strategies you have used to engage your volunteers, and share any success stories and/or challenges you face. 

If you do not work with volunteers just yet, what are your thoughts on effective volunteer engagement? What, if any challenges might you...

This week, discuss your thoughts on using the logic model as a tool in organizing your program goals, inputs and outputs.  Please share any other program planning tools you might recommend to other students.

🌻 To get the most out of our weekly forums and to keep the discussion engaging for all, pl...

Depending on where you live, you may have a wide variety of free materials available to you such as mulch, pallets, leaves, compost, cardboard or other materials available to you. You may have a local garden supply store which sells needed garden items, but in this forum, share sources of free or...

We have another crowd-sourcing topic for this week's forum. There are so many creative fundraising ideas for school and community gardens - you may already be doing fundraising events for your garden, or have read about or attended other interesting fundraising events. Please share any of these ...

One way to generate excitement in your school or community garden is by holding special events and celebrations at the garden. These can include volunteer parties to construct or maintain the garden, a ribbon-cutting ceremony to 'open' the garden, plant and seed giveaways, garden tours led by ...